The student is free to choose graduate courses in their area of interest in order to fulfill the 72 credit hour requirement. Examples listed below.

Course

Credits

BCH 507

Protein Struct/Function (Spring)

2

MIC 624

Mod Top Bact Pathogen (Fall)

2

BCH 512

Developmental Genomics (Fall)

2

BIO 501

Adv Biological Chemistry (Fall)

4

BIO 502

Adv Cell & Develop. Biology (Fall)

4

BIO 523

Tissue Engineering (Spring)

3

PGY 551

Human Physiology (Fall)

3

MIR 511

Molecular Immunology (RPCI)

3

BIO 506

Signal Transduction (Fall)

3

NRS 520

Neuroscience (Spring)

4

BIO 556

Evolutionary Genetics (Fall)

3

PHC 500

Basic Drug Devel (Fall)

2

PHC 517

Pharmacogenomics (Fall)

2

NOTE: All courses for each student must be approved by the advisory committee.

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Mira Edgerton

Research Professor

I think as mentors at UB, our approach to scientific thought processes is our strength; we emphasize higher-order reasoning as an essential part of an approach to a problem.

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Ernesto DeNardin

Professor

The unique thing about our PhD program is that, in most cases, the graduate students are also clinical residents, so they get a unique exposure to both worlds.

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Libuse Bobek

Professor

Every student has a primary mentor and a committee that is composed of at least three other members of the faculty who guide the students throughout the five or six years of study that it takes.

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Frank Scannapieco

Professor and Chair

There's quite a diverse group of studies that we're working on. For example, we are now investigating the role of oral health in systemic disease, particularly the effects of oral health on hospital-acquired pneumonia.

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Jenny Sun (’08)

Dr. Edgerton is trying to encourage all of us to think for ourselves and lead us to the correct way. We talk daily. I like this department a lot. The students, the faculty—everybody knows everybody else. We always talk together, what is going on with your research. It’s kind of a big family, and the faculty is very easygoing.

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Calogero Dolce (’96)

The Oral Biology program met all my needs. They were very, very accommodating. There was a diversity of people there. Everything that you needed was there. If you had a problem, you could always go to another faculty member to get your question resolved. There was a lot of different expertise.

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Lawrence Tabak (’81)

We all learned from each other—students, postdocs and faculty alike. Our journal clubs were pretty intense. My classmates went on to very distinguished academic/research careers. We were taught to be intellectually rigorous and unafraid to try new things.

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Keith Kirkwood (’97)

A lot of my training and views on clinical periodontics especially are based on my experiences in Oral Biology in Buffalo. The program allowed me to seek training outside the department because I wanted different expertise.